16 Jun 22 @ 16:06

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2022 will be remembered for many things, including the deepest recession since the 1930s and subsequent economic turmoil. Although Europe’s economies have largely recovered, turmoil remains... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 12:04

With much of the world reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, trends in online shopping are slowly starting to normalise again. But several of the seismic shifts seen across... read more

16 Jun 22 @ 10:07

When an American online retailer became the first major merchant worldwide to accept cryptocurrency as payment in 2014, it was big news. Since then, digital currency has entered the mainstream.... read more

15 Jun 22 @ 09:00

The financial space has a long history of exclusionism for small business owners. Slow processes, backwards-looking risk models and finance providers that don’t seem to truly understand the needs of... read more

13 Jun 22 @ 13:05

Despite more than a decade of non-stop innovation in online and digital payments, the majority of businesses are happy to settle for a “vanilla” off-the-shelf card program that doesn’t fit... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 12:44

After nearly two years of painstaking implementation, P27 will soon be ready to transition from working with prospective participants to actual customers. Instant payments are at the top of P27’s... read more

10 Jun 22 @ 10:46

I told you so! During Money 2020 I was asked many times about Apple Pay Later and how they would fund the loans. My response? “why would you use Goldman... read more

08 Jun 22 @ 19:23

Embedded payments is one of the hottest trends in FinTech, but despite the buzz about this transaction revolution across the industry, 49% of consumers have never heard of the term... read more

08 Jun 22 @ 18:58

Online marketplaces may be the greatest business success story of the last twenty years. Perhaps the most well known are Amazon – revenue $477 billion last year, up 14% –... read more

07 Jun 22 @ 19:21

The German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are the first mobile payment systems to become interoperable with one another. Interoperability of the two systems is based on the specifications of... read more

07 Jun 22 @ 15:54

Nuapay has released new data revealing that 1 in 4 (25%) merchants predict Open Banking payments will become the most popular payment method amongst customers in the next 5 years.... read more

31 May 22 @ 13:22

Ingenico and Ant Group have announced details of their  partnership that will allow acquirers and other payment service providers to implement Alipay+ seamlessly across their merchant networks using Ingenico’s PPaaS... read more

26 May 22 @ 17:08

Marqeta has released a report looking at consumer payment, mobile wallets, banking and shopping preferences, showing digital adoption is on the rise. The company surveyed of 4,000 consumers across three... read more

26 May 22 @ 16:33

NatWest Group is the first UK bank to go beyond the requirement for banks to provide Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) for sweeping – the automatic transfer of money between two... read more

24 May 22 @ 08:54

A new white paper from leading digital finance company Plaid says the advent of Open Banking will herald a revolution in payments. The paper explains the implications of this new era... read more

20 May 22 @ 12:49

Worldline has published a research report which highlights the latest insights in online shopping and digital wallets. The findings show that convenience, payment options, price and ethical concerns are some... read more

20 May 22 @ 12:24

In July 2021, the CMA mandated the use of variable recurring payments (VRPs) as the mechanism for implementing sweeping under item A10 of the Roadmap (the July letter). In the... read more

16 May 22 @ 17:59

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) financing has become hugely popular over the last few years. However, as the industry grows and providers expand their offerings, BNPL fraud is likely to... read more

13 May 22 @ 10:40

With a combined population of 27 million digitally-savvy consumers, the Nordic region is rapidly becoming a FinTech hotspot. As the Yearbooks outline in detail, the frenetic buzz of activity around... read more

12 May 22 @ 14:45

Google is rumoured to be bringing back its Google Wallet product in some form after it made the app part of Google Pay, along with images of the new app... read more